Man: The "She" of Creation

*** An interesting note: without realizing it, this post was origianlly written on the 7th day of the 7th month of the 7th year. I wanted to change the date so that my next topic would be right above it. Still, I thought that was kinda neat, since I will be discussing humanity's relationship with the Trinity ***

I would like to hear some thoughts on this one. I was listening to Christopher West's take on the Theology of the Body, and this phrase popped in my head while I was trying to make sense of what he was saying: "Man is the 'she' of creation." In my next few blogs, I want to try to discuss what that phrase might mean, and what might be its implications.

The "she" of humanity, the female, the woman, is receptivity. Women, who naturally espouse this receptivity, are "incubators," much like soil, in that they receive a word, an idea, or a concept, and allow it to germinate, take root, and blossom. This kind of receptivity is also evident in their physiology, since their bodies are even hardwired to receive and incubate life. Men, on the other hand, generally shuffle information much like a cd player, moving form one song to the next, often with no record of the previous song. Again, the male physiology mirrors this -- especially in our sexuality (and the same goes for women). Have you ever heard of the cliche, "men are like microwaves, women are like slow-cookers"? It refers to is our sex drive -- push a button, and the male is ready to go, while it takes a little while for the female to get ready (generally speaking, of course). The female incubates, the male plants. Although the degree to which each male or female plants and incubates varies, no matter how you look at it, there will always be this stark difference in how we process and recieve information. Spiritually speaking, the male must become like the female in this respect. The male must move from planting to receiving in his relationship with God. In fact, all of humanity must somehow become this "she" in order to find fulfillment; in other words, the "he" of our humanity must become like the "she." We must be willing to receive from God, the source of our humanity, if we want to become fully human.

But the question that I have is this (and I want to talk about this later): if we are to become the "she" of creation, then what does that make God? Do we continue to treat God as a complete genderless being and speak of God as some sort of androgynous entity? Or is there wisdom in the words of Christ: "This is how you ought to pray: 'Our Father...'"? Furthermore, is it purely an acidental phenomenon that Christ came as a male?